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Best Practice Cafe from the 2014 VolunteerMatch Client Summit In a rapidly changing global environment, our local communities continue to struggle with deep poverty, lack of education and the impact of climate change. These challenges can't be solved by any single effort, business, nonprofit or government initiative. We need a new, more connected economy that aligns business, individual and social purpose. People from all experiences, backgrounds and professions need to focus on the unique efforts they can make to address these critical and deepening issues. This session will focus on how to break down the barriers that exist between sectors, sizes and industries to drive holistic, sustainable solutions to change. Aligning people, companies and nonprofits with their unique purpose and goals is tricky work, but when done correctly can transform visionary concepts into tangible, practical solutions for communities. What you'll learn: • How to understand the ways in which your skills, experiences and passions as an individual or business can be directed towards the larger-than-life challenges you hear about in your communities. • Tangible case studies of the ways businesses, foundations, nonprofits and individual actors are taking on more complex, riskier approaches that drive real change. • The biggest challenges that arise in these new collective impact-style models, along with a framework to overcome those hurdles. • The experiences and stories of participants who are building successful multisector careers that are driven by personal and social purpose.
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REsiliency Doesn’t Have a SectorBest Practice Café, VolunteerMatch Client Summit
intro and our time today
Danielle HollyCEO, Common Impact
@dholly8@commonimpact
• Introductions
• The new workforceand work-life blur
• Building a purpose-driven career
• Your experiences
Common Impact catalyzes a new, connectedeconomy by aligning business and social purpose.
Social Return onInvestment
$8MCross-sectorengagements
400Fortune 500
partners
20
the challenge transcends sectors…
We may have allcome on differentships, but we're in
the same boat now.- MLK
access to clean water
STEM education and ourfuture workforce
climate change
…as does the solution
TheWork-Life
Blur
the new workforce
700% increase inthe remoteworkforce in thelast 20 years
Employees are defining personal brands andaffiliations outside of their companies – and
those brands have purpose
Average tenure =2-3 years
70% of employees are disengaged oractively disengaged
the opportunity
55% ofMillennialswereinfluencedto taketheir jobafterdiscussingcausework intheirinterview*
* Millennial Impact Report, 2014, Achieve and The Case Foundation
So howdo we do
it?
building a purpose-driven career
• Talk about the mission-oriented work you’re doing– even if it’s not your day job!
• Read up! There’s a growing body of resourcesthat will keep you informed on industry news inyour particular area of interest
• Stretch your mission-oriented networks withgroups such as YNPN, Net Impact,CreativeMornings, Impact Hub
• Build on what exists Tie what you’re doing toyour company or organization’s business goalsand infrastructure that already exists
think about your contribution
• What is the skill or talent you can share withthe community?
• How can you use your unique perch(experience, background, ethnicity, privilege,gender) to create access for someone else?
• Who are the decision makers in yourdepartment, company, community?
• What makes you uncomfortable?
are you doing it? the litmus test
You’re learning something truly new ordifferent
You have a different background orexperience set than everyone else at the table
You think differently from everyone else at thetable
You start to pull from your personal (notprofessional) experiences to make sense of anidea or an initiativeYou’re uncomfortable
hearing from you
• What are your success stories in doingcross-sector or multi-sector work?
• What are some of the barriers you’vefaced?
• Do you identify more with one sector oranother?
resources
• The Guardian’s Sustainable Business Section
• The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide to CorporateChangemakers
• Stanford Social Innovation Review, Talent Matters Series
• In Search of the Hybrid Ideal, Julie Battilana, StanfordSocial Innovation Review, Summer 2012
• The Brink of Renewal: A Business Leader’s Guide toProgress in American Schools, BCG, 2014
To take home!
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